BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Texas A&M senior outside hitter Angela Lowak has been named to the SEC Volleyball Community Service Team, the Southeastern Conference announced today. It is the third consecutive year the New Braunfels, Texas, native has been named to the team, which looks to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to their community in superior service efforts.
The SEC sponsors Community Service Teams for all 21 league sponsored sports. The Community Service Team looks to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to their community in superior service efforts. The 12th annual women's volleyball Community Service Team follows:
Natalie Murison, Sophomore, Libero, Alabama
Murison participated in the annual Halloween Extravaganza, which allows children from across western Alabama to interact with Alabama student-athletes and play Halloween-themed games. This year, over 1,000 members of the Tuscaloosa community were involved in the event. Murison also has been involved with the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, which has greatly impacted the local community since the April 27, 2011 tornado, which caused the need for affordable housing to skyrocket following the devastation.
Breana Jones, Junior, Middle Blocker, Arkansas
Jones helped organize the team's cosmetics drive that resulted in donated items and more than $1,400 that went to the Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter. She volunteers 2-3 times a month at the Children's Shelter. Jones gave campus tours to kids from the Children's Shelter during the Razorback For a Day event. She also volunteers her time for reading trips to local elementary schools and helping at the Fayetteville Animal Shelter. Jones is involved in Arkansas' Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Day and canned food drives. She is an elementary education major who spends 5-10 hours per week as a student teacher at two local Northwest Arkansas schools. The two-time SEC academic selection is an on-going member of Arkansas' Athletic Department Honor Roll and earned Leader of Distinction through the Razorbacks' Leadership Academy.
Stephanie Campbell, Junior, Middle Blocker, Auburn
Campbell is the Community Service Executive for SAAC (Student Athlete Advisory Committee), organizing all community service efforts for all student-athletes. In this role, she assists fellow student-athletes in finding community service projects and also heads projects that include a clothing drive for the Mission Thrift Store in Auburn. Individually, Campbell volunteers weekly with a program called CPS (Canine Performance Science). There, she works with dogs that will be used for detection purposes. Campbell has also participated in packing Blessings in a Backpack, an organization that provides bags of food to school children who are underfed at home. She has taken part in reading to elementary students, has visited hospital patients over the holidays, and has participated in the BIG event, a day-long event that has collegiate student help members of the community they study in. Campbell was named to the 2013 and 2014 SEC Academic Honor Roll, and has earned spots on the 2014 and 2015 CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams.
Shaïnah Joseph, Junior, Outside Hitter, Florida
As a redshirt junior, Joseph has devoted countless hours to the University of Florida and Gainesville communities, doubling the hours of her next closest volleyball teammate. She has racked up over 30 hours of service on 15 different events, including Gator Move (to get elementary kids active before the school day), Baby Gators Field Day, Climb for Cancer (UF's sports camp for cancer patients), Dreamer's Foundation Prom, UF Health & Shands Infusion Room and Pediatrics visits, service at Hidden Oak, J.J. Finley and Duval Elementary schools in Gainesville, Gator Tracks (gifting shoes to those in need over the Christmas holiday) and over 10 hours at the Girls Place sports clinic in town. Aside from her individual contributions to the Gainesville and University of Florida communities, Joseph has additionally participated in the UF Volleyball team's service efforts, including decorating back-to-school signs for the children at Idylwild Elementary School. The Gators annually visit UF Health on Thanksgiving, and will do so again this year per team tradition with a home match Thanksgiving week.
Elle McCord, Junior, Defensive Specialist /Libero, Georgia
McCord has worked with Athens Stomp Poverty, a program designed to help impoverished families in the Athens-Clarke County area with groceries, housing maintenance and social time. She has also worked with Jam Quest Hoops, a program that helps with children in Kenya by raising money and awareness through basketball. McCord helped organize the Relay for Life Date Auction that helped raise an overall $5,000 for the fight against cancer. She attends the annual Special Olympics prom and spends times with the children at the Special Olympics baseball game. McCord also helped create the "No More" campaign, a domestic violence awareness campaign video made by student-athletes to be played on the Jumbotron during UGA football games. She has served as co-chair of the SAAC marketing committee and on the Athletic Recruitment Board for UGA Relay for Life. McCord volunteered for the Alpha Omega Campus Ministry. She is a part of the L.E.A.D. Society and UGA's Honor Society and an inductee to the Delta Epsilon Iota Honor Society and the Golden Key Honor Society. McCord has been named to the Athletic Department's Honor Roll four times and has studied abroad in Australia/New Zealand to learn about business and different cultures at the global scale.
Morgan Bergren, Senior, Setter, Kentucky
Bergren has been a mainstay in working within the community as a student-athlete. She has been involved in everything from ringing the bell during the Holidays for the Salvation Army, to volunteering and visiting children and adults who are suffering at places like the Lexington VA, UK Children's Hospital, Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Center and the Boys and Girls club. As a member of the SAAC, Bergren has volunteered for God's Pantry's local backpack program. She helped coordinate the UK Children's Hospital blanket project, volunteered at the local YMCA and been involved with Read Across America. Bergren has impacted campus life volunteering with the UK move-in event in which she helps incoming students move into their dorms, as well as the back-to-school picnic. She has also spent several years working with the Gear Up program, through which she has mentored two middle school children via Skype. Bergren joined a group of UK student-athletes and staff members for a 10-day trip to Ethiopia. The Kentucky contingent serves the people of Ethiopia for several days provide clothing, working with them in their daily projects and playing sports and games with them. Bergren's major take from the experience was the value in which Ethiopians place in relationships. The conversational part of their time was more significant than the clothing they brought to share or the time spent working or playing. She is finalist for the Senior CLASS Award and was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team.
Katie Lindelow, Senior, Outside Hitter, LSU
Lindelow has been active in community service every year of her Tiger career, with her final season in 2015 being no different. This season, she has volunteered her time to many different efforts, including participating in a pair of events put on by the Baton Rouge chapter of the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation that included an ice-cream party as well as a bowling event. Lindelow has participated in hospital and animal shelter visits, while also assisting with the Girls on the Run, an organization that helps promote healthy lifestyles for young girls through running, at a bandana painting event. Within the team's borders, she has helped with LSU's annual BOOzar event helping provide a safe trick-or-treat environment for kids and their families, while also helping spearhead the 2015 senior class' volunteering project in partnering with the Blue Star Mothers of Louisiana to collect items at home matches that will be packaged and sent to U.S. Military troops currently serving overseas.
Aubrey Edie, Junior, Setter, Ole Miss
Edie helped with the Tornado Disaster Relief Drive for Columbia, Miss. and with the Batesville Elementary School Supply Drive as they recovered form a devastating fire in July. She spent an off Sunday in volleyball this year helping collect donations for the South Carolina Supply Drive for fellow Southeastern Conference member South Carolina and the greater Columbia, S.C. community devastated by the floods. Edie also helped with Trunk or Treat Night at Soccer. She was named to the 2014 AVCA All-Region team and became the second player in school history to achieve 3,000 career assists. Edie is a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team selection and has earned spots on the SEC Academic Honor Roll and Chancellor's Honor Roll.
Ellen Stuart, Senior, Defensive Specialist /Libero, Mississippi State
Stuart served as a counselor for high school girls for the last two summers (13 weeks total) at Camp Ozark, a Christian sports camp in Mount Ida, Ark. She coached seniors in high school in a league of different sports, including shooting sports such as rifle, skeet shooting, archery, along with volleyball. She has served as MSU's volleyball representative on the Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee since her sophomore year. Stuart was a part of Reading Railroad, put on by the Junior Auxiliary of Starkville. The program, is dedicated to enhancing the lives of children, youth and families. Stuart spends time with kids doing activities such as reading and arts & crafts. With Vickers Personal Home Care, she visits with residents as much as possible on Fridays, sharing meals with them, playing piano with them and for them, amongst other activities. Stuart is a leader with MSU YoungLife, a campus outreach ministry. She has aided in the Gameday Carpool, meeting and greeting students at local Starkville schools in the carpool lanes in the morning, assisting them into school. A member of the Tri Delta sorority, Stuart is a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Regan Peltier, Senior, Outside Hitter/ Middle Blocker, Missouri
Over her four-year career at Mizzou, Peltier has accumulated nearly 75 community service hours. She has been a part of the Going Bonkers Night at "Going Bonkers" kids' place in Columbia, Mo. and the Meet & Greets at the Columbia Mall. Peltier has participated in the Mizzou Volleyball Youth League morning sessions and the preseason Black & Gold Youth Clinic. She has worked with the Mid-Missouri Special Olympics, the Columbia Girl Scout Clinic, the University of Missouri Student Spirit Night and the Lenior Woods Senior Service Center "Cookie Project." Peltier is a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Sarah Blomgren, Senior, Right Side/Outside Hitter, South Carolina
Blomgren spent four weeks this summer with the International Student Volunteer organization in Costa Rica, working in community development or wildlife/ecosystem preservation. She helped pave rural roads to help assist farmers transport their goods, and also went out to the local schools to tutor the children in English. She worked locally after the flooding, working with the team to pack bottled water and non-perishable food for Columbia residents hit the hardest by the disaster. Blomgren has volunteered a number of times at Christopher Towers Senior Living Facility, visiting with the residents there. She has helped with the athletic department's Bikes for Kids race event, working with registration and out on the course. Blomgren has also helped run post-match volleyball clinics for young children. She is a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll and was named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll in 2012.
Megan Hatcher, Senior, Defensive Specialist, Tennessee
Hatcher has worked with the East Tennessee Children's Hospital and volunteered at the Ronald McDonald House. She serves on Tennessee's Student-Athlete Advisory Board as chair of the marketing committee. Hatcher serves at athletic department events like Voloween, a Halloween event for university faculty and staff children. She was named to the 2013 and 2014 SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Angela Lowak, Senior, Outside Hitter, Texas A&M
Lowak is making her third consecutive appearance on the SEC Community Service Team. The senior from New Braunfels, Texas, utilizes her membership in several service organizations as a platform to volunteer at an array of service projects that have benefitted communities on a local and national scale, as well as at the international level. Lowak is the volleyball team representative on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee and serves as the public relations chair. She was in charge of the on-campus competition for Aggies CAN, the largest student-athlete run canned food drive in the nation. Lowak also volunteers at Film on the Field, a SAAC-sponsored annual event held to unify the student-athletes with the student body and members of the community, and she assisted with the Twin Cities Coat Drive as well as Hard Hats for Little Heads, an annual program held to teach elementary students about the importance of wearing helmets to prevent head injuries. Lowak also is a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority and serves as the philanthropy chair. She is responsible for the organization's main spring fundraising event, Dodge the Arrow, a dodge ball tournament that helps raise money for First Book, a nonprofit organization that provides books to schools and programs serving children in need. She also visits the Barbara Bush Parent Center where she assists local citizens become more proficient in English, and she regularly reads to children at local elementary schools and participates in other activities that promote literacy. As a member of the Business Honors program at Texas A&M, Lowak has volunteered at the Brazos Valley Food Bank, where she helps sort items and pack family boxes. A member of FCA, Lowak and her colleagues interact with local elementary school children during their physical education classes, teaching them the importance of being physically active and setting an example for good sportsmanship and team work. Lowak also participated in a three-week Campus Crusades event in which she cleaned roads and picked up litter in Breckenridge, Colo. She raised her own funds and went on a 12-day trip with Adventures and Missions to AIDS-stricken Swaziland, where she volunteered at the hospital, helped with playground improvement projects and taught Bible study sessions, and this past summer, she spent 17 days in Vietnam, volunteering at an orthopedic and rehabilitation hospital. Lowak has been involved with Aggies BUILD, assisting in the building of mobile medical units to send to third world countries and she also participated in the 2014 Global Enterprise Experience, collaborating with students from all over the world via web chat to formulate a business plan to better the youth of the world. A co-captain on the Aggie volleyball team, Lowak has participated in the annual Residence Hall Move-In Assistance Day each of the last four years, taking time during her day off during two-a-days to welcome and assist new and returning Aggies move into their dorms. Lowak, a three-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll, has been recognized numerous times for her selflessness, including being named National Consortium for Academics and Sports PlayMaker of the Month, a program that recognizes the academic achievement and community service of student-athletes at NCAS member institutions. She also received the CoSIDA/Haier Achievement Award, was named the Class of 2016 recipient of the Texas A&M Class Star award for service, and she was a Coach Wooden Citizen Cup semifinalist.
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The SEC sponsors Community Service Teams for all 21 league sponsored sports. The Community Service Team looks to highlight an athlete from each school who gives back to their community in superior service efforts. The 12th annual women's volleyball Community Service Team follows:
Natalie Murison, Sophomore, Libero, Alabama
Murison participated in the annual Halloween Extravaganza, which allows children from across western Alabama to interact with Alabama student-athletes and play Halloween-themed games. This year, over 1,000 members of the Tuscaloosa community were involved in the event. Murison also has been involved with the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, which has greatly impacted the local community since the April 27, 2011 tornado, which caused the need for affordable housing to skyrocket following the devastation.
Breana Jones, Junior, Middle Blocker, Arkansas
Jones helped organize the team's cosmetics drive that resulted in donated items and more than $1,400 that went to the Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter. She volunteers 2-3 times a month at the Children's Shelter. Jones gave campus tours to kids from the Children's Shelter during the Razorback For a Day event. She also volunteers her time for reading trips to local elementary schools and helping at the Fayetteville Animal Shelter. Jones is involved in Arkansas' Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Day and canned food drives. She is an elementary education major who spends 5-10 hours per week as a student teacher at two local Northwest Arkansas schools. The two-time SEC academic selection is an on-going member of Arkansas' Athletic Department Honor Roll and earned Leader of Distinction through the Razorbacks' Leadership Academy.
Stephanie Campbell, Junior, Middle Blocker, Auburn
Campbell is the Community Service Executive for SAAC (Student Athlete Advisory Committee), organizing all community service efforts for all student-athletes. In this role, she assists fellow student-athletes in finding community service projects and also heads projects that include a clothing drive for the Mission Thrift Store in Auburn. Individually, Campbell volunteers weekly with a program called CPS (Canine Performance Science). There, she works with dogs that will be used for detection purposes. Campbell has also participated in packing Blessings in a Backpack, an organization that provides bags of food to school children who are underfed at home. She has taken part in reading to elementary students, has visited hospital patients over the holidays, and has participated in the BIG event, a day-long event that has collegiate student help members of the community they study in. Campbell was named to the 2013 and 2014 SEC Academic Honor Roll, and has earned spots on the 2014 and 2015 CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams.
Shaïnah Joseph, Junior, Outside Hitter, Florida
As a redshirt junior, Joseph has devoted countless hours to the University of Florida and Gainesville communities, doubling the hours of her next closest volleyball teammate. She has racked up over 30 hours of service on 15 different events, including Gator Move (to get elementary kids active before the school day), Baby Gators Field Day, Climb for Cancer (UF's sports camp for cancer patients), Dreamer's Foundation Prom, UF Health & Shands Infusion Room and Pediatrics visits, service at Hidden Oak, J.J. Finley and Duval Elementary schools in Gainesville, Gator Tracks (gifting shoes to those in need over the Christmas holiday) and over 10 hours at the Girls Place sports clinic in town. Aside from her individual contributions to the Gainesville and University of Florida communities, Joseph has additionally participated in the UF Volleyball team's service efforts, including decorating back-to-school signs for the children at Idylwild Elementary School. The Gators annually visit UF Health on Thanksgiving, and will do so again this year per team tradition with a home match Thanksgiving week.
Elle McCord, Junior, Defensive Specialist /Libero, Georgia
McCord has worked with Athens Stomp Poverty, a program designed to help impoverished families in the Athens-Clarke County area with groceries, housing maintenance and social time. She has also worked with Jam Quest Hoops, a program that helps with children in Kenya by raising money and awareness through basketball. McCord helped organize the Relay for Life Date Auction that helped raise an overall $5,000 for the fight against cancer. She attends the annual Special Olympics prom and spends times with the children at the Special Olympics baseball game. McCord also helped create the "No More" campaign, a domestic violence awareness campaign video made by student-athletes to be played on the Jumbotron during UGA football games. She has served as co-chair of the SAAC marketing committee and on the Athletic Recruitment Board for UGA Relay for Life. McCord volunteered for the Alpha Omega Campus Ministry. She is a part of the L.E.A.D. Society and UGA's Honor Society and an inductee to the Delta Epsilon Iota Honor Society and the Golden Key Honor Society. McCord has been named to the Athletic Department's Honor Roll four times and has studied abroad in Australia/New Zealand to learn about business and different cultures at the global scale.
Morgan Bergren, Senior, Setter, Kentucky
Bergren has been a mainstay in working within the community as a student-athlete. She has been involved in everything from ringing the bell during the Holidays for the Salvation Army, to volunteering and visiting children and adults who are suffering at places like the Lexington VA, UK Children's Hospital, Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Center and the Boys and Girls club. As a member of the SAAC, Bergren has volunteered for God's Pantry's local backpack program. She helped coordinate the UK Children's Hospital blanket project, volunteered at the local YMCA and been involved with Read Across America. Bergren has impacted campus life volunteering with the UK move-in event in which she helps incoming students move into their dorms, as well as the back-to-school picnic. She has also spent several years working with the Gear Up program, through which she has mentored two middle school children via Skype. Bergren joined a group of UK student-athletes and staff members for a 10-day trip to Ethiopia. The Kentucky contingent serves the people of Ethiopia for several days provide clothing, working with them in their daily projects and playing sports and games with them. Bergren's major take from the experience was the value in which Ethiopians place in relationships. The conversational part of their time was more significant than the clothing they brought to share or the time spent working or playing. She is finalist for the Senior CLASS Award and was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team.
Katie Lindelow, Senior, Outside Hitter, LSU
Lindelow has been active in community service every year of her Tiger career, with her final season in 2015 being no different. This season, she has volunteered her time to many different efforts, including participating in a pair of events put on by the Baton Rouge chapter of the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation that included an ice-cream party as well as a bowling event. Lindelow has participated in hospital and animal shelter visits, while also assisting with the Girls on the Run, an organization that helps promote healthy lifestyles for young girls through running, at a bandana painting event. Within the team's borders, she has helped with LSU's annual BOOzar event helping provide a safe trick-or-treat environment for kids and their families, while also helping spearhead the 2015 senior class' volunteering project in partnering with the Blue Star Mothers of Louisiana to collect items at home matches that will be packaged and sent to U.S. Military troops currently serving overseas.
Aubrey Edie, Junior, Setter, Ole Miss
Edie helped with the Tornado Disaster Relief Drive for Columbia, Miss. and with the Batesville Elementary School Supply Drive as they recovered form a devastating fire in July. She spent an off Sunday in volleyball this year helping collect donations for the South Carolina Supply Drive for fellow Southeastern Conference member South Carolina and the greater Columbia, S.C. community devastated by the floods. Edie also helped with Trunk or Treat Night at Soccer. She was named to the 2014 AVCA All-Region team and became the second player in school history to achieve 3,000 career assists. Edie is a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team selection and has earned spots on the SEC Academic Honor Roll and Chancellor's Honor Roll.
Ellen Stuart, Senior, Defensive Specialist /Libero, Mississippi State
Stuart served as a counselor for high school girls for the last two summers (13 weeks total) at Camp Ozark, a Christian sports camp in Mount Ida, Ark. She coached seniors in high school in a league of different sports, including shooting sports such as rifle, skeet shooting, archery, along with volleyball. She has served as MSU's volleyball representative on the Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee since her sophomore year. Stuart was a part of Reading Railroad, put on by the Junior Auxiliary of Starkville. The program, is dedicated to enhancing the lives of children, youth and families. Stuart spends time with kids doing activities such as reading and arts & crafts. With Vickers Personal Home Care, she visits with residents as much as possible on Fridays, sharing meals with them, playing piano with them and for them, amongst other activities. Stuart is a leader with MSU YoungLife, a campus outreach ministry. She has aided in the Gameday Carpool, meeting and greeting students at local Starkville schools in the carpool lanes in the morning, assisting them into school. A member of the Tri Delta sorority, Stuart is a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Regan Peltier, Senior, Outside Hitter/ Middle Blocker, Missouri
Over her four-year career at Mizzou, Peltier has accumulated nearly 75 community service hours. She has been a part of the Going Bonkers Night at "Going Bonkers" kids' place in Columbia, Mo. and the Meet & Greets at the Columbia Mall. Peltier has participated in the Mizzou Volleyball Youth League morning sessions and the preseason Black & Gold Youth Clinic. She has worked with the Mid-Missouri Special Olympics, the Columbia Girl Scout Clinic, the University of Missouri Student Spirit Night and the Lenior Woods Senior Service Center "Cookie Project." Peltier is a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Sarah Blomgren, Senior, Right Side/Outside Hitter, South Carolina
Blomgren spent four weeks this summer with the International Student Volunteer organization in Costa Rica, working in community development or wildlife/ecosystem preservation. She helped pave rural roads to help assist farmers transport their goods, and also went out to the local schools to tutor the children in English. She worked locally after the flooding, working with the team to pack bottled water and non-perishable food for Columbia residents hit the hardest by the disaster. Blomgren has volunteered a number of times at Christopher Towers Senior Living Facility, visiting with the residents there. She has helped with the athletic department's Bikes for Kids race event, working with registration and out on the course. Blomgren has also helped run post-match volleyball clinics for young children. She is a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll and was named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll in 2012.
Megan Hatcher, Senior, Defensive Specialist, Tennessee
Hatcher has worked with the East Tennessee Children's Hospital and volunteered at the Ronald McDonald House. She serves on Tennessee's Student-Athlete Advisory Board as chair of the marketing committee. Hatcher serves at athletic department events like Voloween, a Halloween event for university faculty and staff children. She was named to the 2013 and 2014 SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Angela Lowak, Senior, Outside Hitter, Texas A&M
Lowak is making her third consecutive appearance on the SEC Community Service Team. The senior from New Braunfels, Texas, utilizes her membership in several service organizations as a platform to volunteer at an array of service projects that have benefitted communities on a local and national scale, as well as at the international level. Lowak is the volleyball team representative on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee and serves as the public relations chair. She was in charge of the on-campus competition for Aggies CAN, the largest student-athlete run canned food drive in the nation. Lowak also volunteers at Film on the Field, a SAAC-sponsored annual event held to unify the student-athletes with the student body and members of the community, and she assisted with the Twin Cities Coat Drive as well as Hard Hats for Little Heads, an annual program held to teach elementary students about the importance of wearing helmets to prevent head injuries. Lowak also is a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority and serves as the philanthropy chair. She is responsible for the organization's main spring fundraising event, Dodge the Arrow, a dodge ball tournament that helps raise money for First Book, a nonprofit organization that provides books to schools and programs serving children in need. She also visits the Barbara Bush Parent Center where she assists local citizens become more proficient in English, and she regularly reads to children at local elementary schools and participates in other activities that promote literacy. As a member of the Business Honors program at Texas A&M, Lowak has volunteered at the Brazos Valley Food Bank, where she helps sort items and pack family boxes. A member of FCA, Lowak and her colleagues interact with local elementary school children during their physical education classes, teaching them the importance of being physically active and setting an example for good sportsmanship and team work. Lowak also participated in a three-week Campus Crusades event in which she cleaned roads and picked up litter in Breckenridge, Colo. She raised her own funds and went on a 12-day trip with Adventures and Missions to AIDS-stricken Swaziland, where she volunteered at the hospital, helped with playground improvement projects and taught Bible study sessions, and this past summer, she spent 17 days in Vietnam, volunteering at an orthopedic and rehabilitation hospital. Lowak has been involved with Aggies BUILD, assisting in the building of mobile medical units to send to third world countries and she also participated in the 2014 Global Enterprise Experience, collaborating with students from all over the world via web chat to formulate a business plan to better the youth of the world. A co-captain on the Aggie volleyball team, Lowak has participated in the annual Residence Hall Move-In Assistance Day each of the last four years, taking time during her day off during two-a-days to welcome and assist new and returning Aggies move into their dorms. Lowak, a three-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll, has been recognized numerous times for her selflessness, including being named National Consortium for Academics and Sports PlayMaker of the Month, a program that recognizes the academic achievement and community service of student-athletes at NCAS member institutions. She also received the CoSIDA/Haier Achievement Award, was named the Class of 2016 recipient of the Texas A&M Class Star award for service, and she was a Coach Wooden Citizen Cup semifinalist.
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